Sunday, July 27, 2014

Poem for Sunday and Rescue Animals

A Tyrant Seeks Conclusion in the Known SelfBy Emily Kendal Frey

In California we went to the dive bar and I lost my walletI remember falling into it And maybe kissing against someone's garage I fell on city sidewalks In California and other places The trees looked at me tenderly I'm guessing You do not love me because your mom did not love you I understand the equation Meanwhile, I make a butter fire in the kitchen Two times I heat the butter for the eggs Both times I burn it Just observe, I tell My students, describe what is The woman next to me on the airplane Moves pictures from her wallet to her pocket In case we die I cry with my eyes closed and the Sprite goes by The unconscious drives us to master The childhood situation I wonder if there are spiders Here, in the carpet or between the seats A place with bugs is so Much more friendly The book I am reading tells me Ours is an earthbound crisis That until we cease to dominate With doing, we will fail At being My fingernails Are the color of rotten peaches On Orcas Island there's a stone tower on top of Mt. Constitution Some days you can see for miles, the many Mountain ranges and pine-crusted bodies In my mind I practice dying I throw myself over the edge The plane is making its way into the streaking Sun of this country In Mexico I slept in a clay structure facing the ocean I could hear the wind constantly I bought you a tin heart with a hole in it I brought it back in my backpack In bed you said Don't make fun of me When I'm old, okay? When I think of your face I have to think of me You are holding my knee And now I look into you Now I look up and face The abject fear I am an animal The bedroom is trees Go limp a voice tells me When a person passes me on their way to the restroomI pretend they are the kindly face Of god Look deep into the eyes Of the divine It's so beautiful isn't it To believe you are looking At the future

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Another quickie as we had a busy Saturday! In the morning Daniel went to renew his learner's permit, but due to a variety of crises at the MVA and literally a two-hour wait time, that has been postponed. By the time he was back here after noon, after having left at around 9 a.m., we ate lunch and went on a small corner of the Montgomery County Farm Tour taking place this weekend, visiting two rescue farms, Poplar Spring Animal Sanctuary and Star Gazing Farm.

The latter had just closed by the time we got there -- you can see a few of their animals in the last photo below -- but we saw many animals at the former, including sheep, goats, cows, chickens, turkeys, peafowl, guineafowl, pigs, geese, and ducklings! Then we came home for vegetarian chili, Epic Mealtime (the VERY OPPOSITE of rescue farm values), and a visit from a friend of Adam's, and now we are watching the Andrew Garfield SNL rerun!